WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Enquire, Strange Ways, Roger Caron
7 Dec 2013
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Talking about the core concepts developed to think about analyzing male imprisonment experiences. What imprisonment is actually like experienced by prisoners. Trying to capture the actual nature of it. How the sociologies of punishment engage in the abstract, then concrete questions. One of the important core concepts involves the long term psycho. effects of imprisonment and the notion of institutionalization. What does it mean to say someone has become institu. influential book: published in britain in 1984 called psychological survival. Written by british sociologiest stan cohen, laurie taylor. They ran a sociology class in max. security prison. Started befriending the people, and wanted to know what they (prisonerse) believed was happening to them. Prisoners thought they had withdrawn and become less mentally able as time went one. Difficulties going on in max. security wing. Had to manage the long term relationships. Tended to lose contract with people outside.
